Chaplin's Corner - July 2025
The Precious Gift of Freedom
If you study the character of mankind over the centuries, you’ll find that there is one passion that transcends all languages, cultures, and barriers.
Man has an inborn desire and drive to be free. We were created with this God-given drive.
But we should never forget the price that was paid for your freedom. We should never take the freedoms we enjoy for granted.
On the last Monday of May, our nation officially remembers our war dead. Sadly, most Americans see this day as the start of summer vacation.
Two weeks ago, we celebrated our nation’s 249th birthday. It was almost two-and-a-half centuries ago that the United States was born.
The celebration of our nation’s birthday is really a celebration of freedom. We celebrate the precious gift of freedom we have because of the price others paid.
We must remember that freedom isn’t free. Freedom is very expensive. It has cost some people everything, including their lives. Freedom isn’t free, but it’s infinitely valuable.
The ideal of freedom is an ideal that our Founding Fathers believed valuable enough to risk everything on.
Throughout our nation’s history, thousands of young men and women have given their lives and shed their blood – many on foreign soil in forsaken places with names not remembered – so we could experience the joy and responsibility of freedom.
No, freedom is not free. The price is always paid in blood.
I thank God I live in the United States of America, land of the free, home of the brave. But the independence we celebrate as a nation is temporary. A day will come when we no longer enjoy the freedoms we have. It’s the natural progression of mankind.
There is a greater freedom than political freedom. There is a freedom you can have in Jesus Christ if you will place our trust in Him, if you will surrender to Him.
Jesus bled and died; He gave His life, so that you and I could be free. Should we not celebrate an independence that will last for all of eternity?
John 8:36 – If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.